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0 pointseli_gottlieb7y ago0 comments

Wheeler is a fine physicist. Claiming "consciousness is fundamental to reality" is not.

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I personally wouldn’t characterize it from bit that way, but it’s not as crazy as it seems.

We know that subjective reality exists because we directly experience it. But the evidence for an objective reality is shaky at best.

If it exists it isn’t anything like the classical world we inhabit - that has been proven multiple times over.

>We know that subjective reality exists because we directly experience it. But the evidence for an objective reality is shaky at best.

Objective reality can kill me, so I'd consider that rather less shaky than the images that appear when I sleep.

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I personally wouldn’t characterize it from bit that way, but it’s not as crazy as it seems.

We know that subjective reality exists because we directly experience it. But the evidence for an objective reality is shaky at best.

If it exists it isn’t anything like the classical world we inhabit - that has been proven multiple times over.

>We know that subjective reality exists because we directly experience it. But the evidence for an objective reality is shaky at best.

Objective reality can kill me, so I'd consider that rather less shaky than the images that appear when I sleep.

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